According to domain name whois records, Salesforce did acquire Desk.com

The change of ownership appears to have taken place around November 2011. Desk.com was owned by Reflex Publishing Inc. according to whois history records. Interestingly enough, in the whois information when Reflex owned Desk.com, it stated "Not For Sale". I guess money talks.

DNS records have recently changes, so Salesforce may be getting ready to do something with the domain name. Something to keep an eye on.

Salesforce has been buying up premium domain names like candy lately with purchases of Data.com, Database.com and Social.com to mention a few.

Time Warner Cable is starting off 2012 by securing some domain names related to its "cable wifi" product they offer. What makes more sense for your "cable wifi" product than CableWifi.com? Nothing, so it makes perfect sense for them to purchase/own the domain name!

Not only did Time Warner purchase CableWifi.com (the domain is actually still in the transfer process at Sedo, but I am 99.9% sure the buyer is Time Warner) they also purchased:

CableWifi.net also at Sedo. (confirmed via whois)

CableWifi.org (hand registered on 1/3/2012)

CableWifi.biz (hand registered on 1/3/2012)

The purchase prices for CableWifi.com and CableWifi.net have not been publicly announced yet due to it being very early in TWC’s purchase process. One thing I did see, is that CableWifi.com is listed on Afternic for $45,000. This doesn’t mean the domain sold for $45K but it was listed for that amount. NetCorp was the owner of CableWifi.com according to whois records.

Time Warner filed for a trademark for "Cable Wifi" on December 7, 2011

Word Mark CABLE WIFI
Goods and Services IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Providing Internet access; providing wireless access to the Internet
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 85488966
Filing Date December 7, 2011
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) Time Warner Cable Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 60 Columbus Circle New York NEW YORK 10023
Attorney of Record Ester Martín Maillaro
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

CableWifi.com was registered and dropped twice from the registry. It was last registered on March 21, 2007 by Netcorp at Moniker.com .

Michael Berkins of TheDomains.com had posted that Mike Mann sold the domain name uVideos.com very recently for $22,000 and I happened to just noticed who purchased the domain name. It was Univision Communications, Inc.

Mike Mann stated he purchased the domain name uVideos.com for $79.

Here is a little more information based on whois data:

Registrar Ads Inc. owned the domain name for several years prior to Mike grabbing it. Registrar Ads let the domain expire in mid January 2009. Mike Mann’s company "Domain Asset Holdings" purchased the domain name on or about 2/25/2009. DNS was set to DomainMarket.com like the majority of Mike’s domains do.

Fast forward to 1/15/2011 and the domain actually went Pending Renewal or Deletion at the registrar but was renewed about 1/28/2011 by Domain Asset Holdings.

Fast forward almost 1 year from the domain briefly expiring and being renewed and it sells for $22,000!

Other Domains

So does Univision own "similar" domain names to uVideos.com?

uVideo.com (singular) Not currently according to whois records but whois was also acting a bit odd, so this one may be in the process of changing ownership.

YouVideos.com "The sounds like" version of uVideos.com. Not currently according to whois.

YouVideo.com (singular sounds like) Not currently according to whois.

It really wouldn’t be a bad idea for Univision to own all of the above mentioned domain names because each will get some traffic if the domain name is used publicly. Partly due to the single letter "u" being used and "u" sounds like "You". People also have a hard time with plural and singular sometimes.

Either way, nice sale for Mike Mann and now you have a little bit more history about it.

Tip: You can’t sell a domain name for $22,000 unless you ask for that kind of price!